Andrew Yu
- School of Social and Political Science
Contact details
- Email: ayu2@ed.ac.uk
- Web: ORCID
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
- Web: Personal website
Address
- Street
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Chrystal Macmillan Building
15a George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Availability
Tuesday to Thursday by appointment
Qualifications
BA (Hons), MScR, PgCert, PhD, FRAS
Responsibilities & affiliations
- Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society － London, the United Kingdom
- Member of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs－London, the United Kingdom
- Member of the Royal Music Association－London, the United Kingdom
- Member of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology－ London, the United Kingdom
- Member of Britain and the World－London, the United Kingdom
- Member of Hong Kong Studies Association－London, the United Kingdom
- Member of Society for Hong Kong Studies－Hong Kong
Undergraduate teaching
PLIT08009 - Introduction to Political Data Analysis
Postgraduate teaching
PGSP11247 - Political Issues in Public Policy
SCAN11027 - People First: The Anthropology of International Development
Current research interests
Social Policy, Conservatism, British Colonial History, Scottish Studies, Diaspora, Scottish Music, FreemasonryResearch activities
Current project grants
The Overseas Research Scholarship (GBP 46,000), September 2018 - August 2021
Past project grants
Hong Kong Government Scholarship Fund (HKD 50,000), June 2014 - June 2017
The Hong Kong St. Andrew's Society Scholarship (HKD 30,000), September 2018 - January 2020
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Colonial legacy and inheritance: Can Scottish Bagpiping survive in post-colonial Hong Kong?
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper (Accepted/In press) -
The Black Watch in the Great War: Rediscovered histories from the Regimental Family
In:
Journal of British Studies
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Accepted/In press) -
Open space and Sense of Community of older adults: A study in a residential area in Hong Kong
In:
Archnet-IJAR
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-11-2020-0260
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
The failure of the welfare ideology and system in Hong Kong: A historical perspective
(10 pages)
In:
Human Affairs: Postdisciplinary Humanities and Social Sciences Quarterly, vol. 31, pp. 99-108
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2021-0009
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Colonial legacy and inheritance: Scottish bagpipes culture in Singapore
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper (Accepted/In press)